MacALISTER, Sir John Young Walker (1856-1925) Liverpool 1877; CL Leeds 1880; CL Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society 1884-1925
His services to librarianship dwarf even those to medicine where he was the architect of the present RSM. As LA Honorary Secretary 1887-1898 and as Editor and Proprietor of its 'organ', The Library, 1889-1898 he was the Association's leader, revivifier and the idol of young librarians. The LA's Charter of 1898 was essentially his achievement and his Presidency during World War I added further lustre to his fame. He also did much to help to establish the first full-time school of librarianship at UCL in 1919. He was made LA Honorary Fellow in 1898.
S Godbolt and W A Munford The incomparable Mac (1983).
Evelyn Kerslake, ‘MacAlister, Sir John Young Walker (1856–1925)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59737, accessed 8 Nov 2009]
Liverpool 1877; CL Leeds 1880; CL Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society 1884-1925
His services to librarianship dwarf even those to medicine where he was the architect of the present RSM. As LA Honorary Secretary 1887-1898 and as Editor and Proprietor of its 'organ', The Library, 1889-1898 he was the Association's leader, revivifier and the idol of young librarians. The LA's Charter of 1898 was essentially his achievement and his Presidency during World War I added further lustre to his fame. He also did much to help to establish the first full-time school of librarianship at UCL in 1919. He was made LA Honorary Fellow in 1898.
S Godbolt and W A Munford The incomparable Mac (1983).
Evelyn Kerslake, ‘MacAlister, Sir John Young Walker (1856–1925)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59737, accessed 8 Nov 2009]